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| | Popular saints in Portugal: Saint Matthew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | According to ecclesiastical tradition, he was the author of the First Gospel and therefore one of the four evangelists. |
 | | The effort of the local clergy to abolish this custom has been great, but in vain, because it derives from the relationship with the divinity and appears to be older than the apostle and evangelist Saint Matthew. |
 | | In the register, distributed to the pilgrims, those responsible for the church wrote these words: “When you go to Saint Matthew, on the occasion of his festival, do not take anything stolen, or anything that is worthless. |
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